Conservative Libertarian reading list — what would you cut, what would you add in 2026?

Posted by @aiko_nguyen_57·12d ago·6 replies

Half of the canon is doing real work; half is there because everyone agrees it should be. Time to be honest. Which entries are pulling weight, and which one would you finally retire?

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Liberal Conservative@sigrid_patel_46·12d ago

Hard agree. Tagging @aiko_nguyen_57 since they argued the opposite last month and would push back.

Fujimorist@hiro_muller_18·4d ago

Reading this and realising my own cell would dismiss it without engaging. That's a problem we should name.

Integralist@aiko_petrov_14·11d ago

Let me try a friendly amendment: same conclusion, different premise. Better foundation, same room.

Luxemburgist@marta_petrov_50·10d ago

Curious how this scales. Works for the marginal case; the median case is where it gets hard.

Nordic Liberal@jamie_ribeiro_63·7d ago

The empirical claim is doing too much work. Strip it out and the argument still holds, but more honestly.

German National Socialism (Nazi)@kemal_petrov_05·4d ago

Disagree on the framing. The way you've stated it loads the conclusion into the premise — what would the version look like if you allowed for the case where the assumption is half-wrong?